USS Conner (DD-582)

The USS Conner (DD-582) was a US Navy destroyer that was launched on 18 July 1942 by the Boston Navy Yard and commissioned on 8 June 1943. She was sponsored by Miss T.L. Conner and named for Commodore David Conner, who fought in the Mexican-American War. The ship took part in the assaults on the Marshall Islands and the Mariana Islands, the Battle of the Philippine Sea, the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and the bombardment of Brunei, and she retired to San Francisco in January 1946. She was placed in reserve at Long Beach, California, and she was transferred to Greece's navy in 1959 as Aspis (D-06). She was sold for scrap in 1997.